Voting
We invest in organizations that work to secure the right to vote for all eligible voters and to increase voter engagement by all eligible Americans as key to creating a strong, representative, enduring democracy.
- ReadA Dozen Ways to Increase Voting in the United States
E.J. Dionne Jr. and Miles Rapoport propose eleven gateway reforms to pave the way for universal civic duty voting – from expanding opportunities to register, increasing the options for voting, and strengthening effective election administration
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- ReadHow Could Universal Civic Duty Voting Improve American Democracy?
Heather McGhee describes how universal civic duty voting would give America a system in which everyone would count – poor and working people, young people, people from all communities of color – and how the voting electorate would look far more like America
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022Voting - Read11 Barriers to Voting
Here are some of the most common ways voting rights are undermined across the country
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- take actionWhat Can Philanthropy Do to Protect and Expand Voting Rights?
Funders need to think about election issues and provide flexible, reliable support to local, state, and national groups year in and year out
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022Voting - ReadNew Voting Maps for 2022 Midterm Elections
The new maps offer fewer competitive districts than at any point in the last five decades, continue to favor the political party that drew them, and diminish the political power of communities of color
Voting - ReadVoting Rights: A Short History
The struggle for equal voting rights dates to the earliest days of U.S. history. Now, after a period of bipartisan efforts to expand enfranchisement, Americans once again face new obstacles to voting
Voting - ReadVisualizing Voter Turnout in Local and School Board Elections
Data journalist Mona Chalabi helps visualize voter turnout gaps among national and local elections and why voter participation at all election levels — including local school boards — is one way to strengthen U.S. democracy
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